The Bethesda Blog has word on the version 1.3 update for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim that's now available on Steam. They also announce they will be rolling out a patch next week for the Windows PC edition of the RPG sequel to support Large Address Aware configurations. Here's word on what the new patch does:

What CPU do you have and what do you consider a decent framerate? If you have a less-than-4 GHz CPU and you get 60 FPS in towns and cities, I'm calling BS.

I've said plenty of times already that my i5-2500K (not overclocked) runs the game smooth as silk. The only town where I get a drop in performance is Whiterun, and that's simply because it's so large. Markath (which seems to be the biggest problem for everyone) is just fine for me.

(Edit : Okay, one thing I didn't think of, I run with shadows on... medium, I think? Maybe on high. One of the two, I can't think of it off-hand. Not on Ultra. And shadows are done by the CPU in Skyrim, right? That may explain why I'm not having issues.)

It sucks that your processor doesn't run the game well, but this "YOU NEED A 4+ GHZ PROCESSOR OR TEH GAME RUNS LIKE TEH SHITZ LOL!!1!!!" crap is just crap. It obviously has problems for a subset of people, and I'm not saying it doesn't, and it sucks for those people, but the game runs perfectly well on current mid-level hardware.